Advice for Teacher and TAs

This is taken directly from the slides for the RailsBridge teacher training,
so it lacks the rich discussion that happens at an actual training.
It's pretty long, but will give you a lot of stuff to think about, so forge on!

RailsBridge Fun Facts

Founded in 2009 as a variety of initiatives, including Rails Mentors, Rails Bug Smashes, and the Open Workshop Project.

The workshops project was led by Sarah Allen and Sarah Mei.

Its goal: make the Rails community more diverse and more welcoming to newcomers.

Workshops are happening all over the world!

How does a workshop work?

There are a few different RailsBridge curricula:

Intro to Rails (a.k.a. "Suggestotron")

Intermediate Rails

Intro to Ruby

Front End (HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of JavaScript).

First, we get all the necessary technologies onto the students' computers (the installfest). The next day we break into small groups and work through the curriculum.

Making Tech Better Since 2009

RailsBridge is working to make tech more diverse and welcoming by
teaching programming, connecting human beings, and listening to people's needs.
We organize and teach free workshops on Rails, Ruby, and HTML & CSS in
cities all over the world, targeted at groups of people that are underrepresented in tech.
You can read our code of conduct
here.

Want to suggest an update to this site? We use GitHub to keep track of our code.
You can either make a
pull request
or
create an issue.